RE: Notes from the river bottom

I don't think she intended to write boring things nor considered herself a
bore but boring people very rarely self diagnose effectively. Woolf, a bore
that is boring enough to be interesting, at least I find the whole thing
interesting. I suspect it is the effect of anyone who takes a position that
interesting lives are external things. Again, the mundane can be quite
interesting if, like the hunter sitting in the blind, you are patient
enough. How many people on this list can tolerate their own company for any
amount of time, that length of time will be directly proportional to how
interesting their writing usually is. class, aristocracy, academia,
red-neck trailer ambiance etc is merely window dressing, not whys.
Daniel

I think that fits for a lot of modern lit from Woolf's time, but it
doesn't fit all of it. I don't see it as much in Joyce, for example,
but I do see it in Djuna Barnes and Woolf at least sometimes. I think
it's a class thing. What you describe, I suspect, is the affect of
pseudo-aristocracy. Remember Woolf thought the middle class woman was
boring _in relationship to people like her_. I don't think she found
Mrs. Dalloway boring.

Jim

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